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JIMMY Goodfellow, and if ever a bright-shining example of name and nature it is that one, has retired after almost half a century in football. It got offto a flyer.
He was just 20, an apprentice draughtsman at Vickers naval yard on the Tyne, when he scored Crook Town?s first goal at Wembley in the 1964 Amateur Cup final against Enfield ? ?a header, too, ? he says and searches anxiously (and vainly) for the picture with which to prove it.See the full content of this document
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Backtrack - for He?S a Jolly Goodfellow . . .
His scrapbook, however, does carry an eight-column headline wrongly attributing the goal to Matt Lumsdon.
Clearly the press box couldn?t believe its eyes, either.By way of double celebration ? and there were, he concedes, a good few beers ? his beloved Sunderland clinched a long-awaited return to the top division by beating Charlton Athletic that same afternoon.The players ran barefoot around Roker Park.Generally taciturn manager Allan Brown forecast that Bill Shankly?s Liverpool...See the full content of this document
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